Man I hope if a big one is going to happen that it happens soon because my Dad and Stepmom are going on a two week cruise this time next month. I had
a bad feeling when they told me they were going because I just know a big one is coming. I worry about a tsunami. Does anyone know if a tsunami way
out in the open sea has any effect on a med size cruise liner? I want to tell them not to go but what if I'm wrong. Still I have a bad feeling.

Originally posted by BlackPhoenix
Man I hope if a big one is going to happen that it happens soon because my Dad and Stepmom are going on a two week cruise this time next month. I had
a bad feeling when they told me they were going because I just know a big one is coming. I worry about a tsunami. Does anyone know if a tsunami way
out in the open sea has any effect on a med size cruise liner? I want to tell them not to go but what if I'm wrong. Still I have a bad feeling.

The top of the tsunami wave in deeper water is usually 0 to 3 meters, or just a little bump to a sea vessel in deep water.

Normal waves are whipped up by the wind or ocean current and affects only the first few meters of the waters surface.

However, with a tsunami, the force of the upward thrust from an earthquake, causes the whole body of water above it to lift in an instant

thus
dispersing all the water in one or more directions.

It is all fine and dandy in deeper water, but as that mass volume of water reaches more shallow depths, it has nowhere else to go but up, thus causing
the destruction that it does.

So to answer your question......Out at sea they would feel a mere bump, but I would not want to be anywhere near that place at the
moment!!

So.....are we going with a 9.3 on Wednesday February 13th? I have been following this thread with some anticipation of something a lot bigger
happening. If this area goes I really fear the after effects of a large quake and what it would to to the rest of the unstable areas in the world.

Could a really large quake here cause many more natural disasters in other areas or would it limit itself to this region? Just wondering if it could
set off a chain reaction around the globe I guess.....not usually the worrying type, but this place has me a bit apprehensive...

No, the near Earth asteroid on Friday the 15th,
will be sucked in by the Earth's gravitational pull.
It will hit somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in the 'ring of fire',
which is already destabilized by all the quakes near Santa Cruz.

It will cause a huge tsunami just like in TA's 'Chronicles',
thus making him not only a good writer,
but a prophet/psychic in the eyes of the handfull of survivors,
who had been paying attention & reading his Chronicles & so were forewarned,
and went on to rebuild civilization!!!

This earthquake is located adjacent to a complex section of the Australia-Pacific plate boundary, where the Solomon Trench to the west is linked
to the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) Trench to the south by a short segment of dominantly strike-slip plate motion.

I posted in TAs other thread about the big quake last week, and I had said last week, all the way up here in south jersey, the sky rumblings were
super loud and lasted for a couple days to the point that it agitated my dog & the dog was barking at the sky. Today the rumbling again seems just too
loud, nonstop, and dog is agitated again. This is the best part. Apparently, I'm no alone!! Heard a few calls come into the police scanner today,
from some worried residences, concerned with the noises from the sky. Just glad to be validated....hope there's no connection, but one never knows at
this point.......

They will be docking at several Hawaiian ports. I just really don't want them out there and your right it would be scary if all of a sudden there was
a huge rise in the sea.

I read this today and found it interesting ...

Thorne has been watching two enormous piles of rock that sit on the boundary between the core and the mantle. One pile is underneath the Pacific
Ocean; the other under Africa. Scientists have known about them for 20 years, but Thorne saw something different. “I think this is the first study
that might point to evidence that these piles are moving around,” Thorne says. Moving perhaps, but slowly and the piles are maybe 3,000 miles
across. Thorne thinks, in fact, that the pile under the Pacific is actually two piles crushing up against each other.

This earthquake is located adjacent to a complex section of the Australia-Pacific plate boundary, where the Solomon Trench to the west is linked
to the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) Trench to the south by a short segment of dominantly strike-slip plate motion.

The only problem with that is that the Planet is a Globe, not a flat piece of paper.
I know because I've flown at 35,000ft (in a plane) across the Pacific Ocean and the North Pole and you can see the curvature against the sky at that
level.

It seems like other members are alluding to this in their posts, and believe me I am not one for fear mongering, but I might as well say what's on
everyone's mind...

The west coast of the United States seems relatively untouched throughout this whole incident, and has been relatively calm in recent history.. With
all of the action going on around the ring of fire it sure seems like a strong possibility that we could have some sort of correction opposite Santa
Cruz due to all the movement.

I realize that the earths crust around the 'ring of fire' isn't just one gigantic solid plate, rather a puzzle if you will of many different
colliding and moving pieces, but it would seem they are all connected of course one way or another and if one section starts moving it will increase
stress along the rest of the fault lines almost as if it were a circle of dominoes. I am very far from being knowledgable about such things but to me
it seems we have seen earthquakes happen opposite each other before in a correction type scenario, after all, that's one of the many attributes of
earthquakes.. One section of crust moves into another causing stress and irritability.. Pressure accumulated through movement and friction..

It may not be tomorrow, it may not be this week or month, but it seems to me California (or more specifically the west coast of the North American
continent) has been pretty lucky thus far, as far as all this earthquake action goes, and I'm frightened at the prospect while looking at a map of
this unusual activity around the Santa Cruz Islands that we could have a similar experience closer to home (for us North Americans) if it is creating
stress opposite itself on the ring of fire.

Simply conjecture from a novice, but I'm frightened none the less. Of course, that could be due to my novice status.

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